Burn My Time
~Josh Houghtelin
I went Repelling!
First, a little background: I work with Kevin & Zippy works with Brittany. Josh is married to Brittany & Kevin is Josh’s dad. Josh, Brittany, Zippy & Myself all went to St. Louis together for Brittany’s Birthday not too long ago. We all enjoy hanging out so when Kevin asked me if Zippy & I wanted to go repelling, we jumped on it.
I had never been repelling before today! When we got to the bluff Josh & Kevin asked who was going first and when nobody volunteered Kevin said they could send me down first. I didn’t turn it down. It brought up the initial adrenaline rush quite a bit. After slowly going down the first time I got the hang of it. Zippy caught on fast as well. Brittany, Kevin, & Josh are all really good at it. It was a total blast.
Watch the Video of me repelling (as seen above) and also check out the cool compilation video I made. ~40megs
Josh explaining how repelling works.
Josh helping me get a feel for how things work.
Almost there =)
Brittany on the edge.
Kevin showing Zippy how repelling is supposed to work.
Zippy getting in a little practice first.
Zippy starting her first descent. She started on a smaller hill to get the feel for it before taking the big one.
Kevin is realy good at repelling. He even went ‘Ozzy’ which is repelling face down like you’re running down the hill.
This is an awsome shot of Josh starting his decent down the cliff.
4 comments
[…] On Saturday we went down by Osceola with some friends and repelled off of a cliff. It was really beautiful up there and repelling is quite an adrenaline rush. It made for quite an amazing experience. Liquid’s post about repelling it is top notch so be sure to check it out. […]
Posted by Virtualdistortion » Blog Archive » First Repelling Experience, on May 14th, 2006, às 2:15 pm. #.
That was so much fun. Thank you for taking such awesome pix and video of me doing it 
Cool vid. I haven’t been repelling in probably 5 years now but that reminded me how much fun I used to have doing it.
Posted by Andy, on May 15th, 2006, às 12:49 pm. #.
Hey!
I found this page when I was looking for info on repelling. I am a writer for a magazne in Lexington, Kentucky and was wondering if you would mind answering some questions about the “art” of repelling and what first timers should know. I can be contacted by email at nic_7131@hotmail.com I have not yet been repelling but planning on doing it at the Red River Gorge very soon! Thanks for your help and I hope that you have continued to repel!
Nicole Murphy
Posted by Nicole Murphy, on June 19th, 2006, às 1:51 pm. #.
